In it's pre-blocked state it was a sizeable 4 feet by 4 feet. Blocking took it to just under 6 feet square.

As I discovered when I blocked the Blob last year I'm too old to be faffing about blocking things on the floor. So a couple of months ago when I saw these square foam pieces on sale I picked some up - and they've transformed the process!

These squares are each 2ft by 2ft and about 3/4 inch thick. I put the foam pieces together on my dining table was able to block the shawl easily in record time.

As always the moment when I freed the shawl from the pins was a little magical. The shawl is light and delicate and I wish that I had the skill to capture that in a photograph.

Of course this is the Wedding Ring Shawl so 'the test' was necessary.

I ran into a hurdle here - I don't own a wedding ring and although my neigbbhours are lovely, I'm not convinced that my asking to borrow a wedding ring for an hour wouldn't step over the 'neighbourly' line.

Not being a great jewellery wearer myself I didn't have many alternatives to choose from - but eventually found a suitable substitute (well, it's a ring) and tentatively began to pull the end through the ring.

I pulled it through carefully and slowly. And hurrah! It worked!

The shawl lives up to its name. (Well, I guess more accurately it lives up to the name 'Cheap Fashion Ring Shawl' - but that's almost the same. A rose by any other name and all that....)

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It's so beautiful. You must be busting with pride at how it came out. So delicate and elegant. It's projects like this that keep urging me forward when I screw up my lace work. I want to get good enough to make things like your shawl one day, so I must keep practicing.

Wanna make me one? Ha - already know the answer to that one. I like to kid myself that I could make one or talk someone else into making it for me - ahh, must be content to gaze at the wonders of others.......